Quote Originally Posted by Qwertystop View Post
Or the Raticate did in fact die, but not because of you? It's a graveyard. The game's not exactly subtle about that fact, doesn't pretend that dying doesn't happen.
Blue is also explicitly there to catch Pokemon, not to mourn.

He leaves becuase he couldn't find the Marrowhack people were talking about.

He also claims to have caught over 50 Pokemon, so if he didn't trade it for his Gyarados(which 'illegal' moves when you first encounter it, so he probably didn't raise it himself) then he probably dropped it in a box once it wasn't useful to him anymore.

People jump on the "Raticate Died" there when there are better explanations.